Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-04

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The troubles OF Sharon and Althes
Hill are too recent to need repetition
The scandal sent the exhibited States
Senator to his grave, and Lucky Baldwin
! has had numerous suits with his imam
oratas. In 1883 q woman who claimed TO
be his cousin tried to shoot bin IN the
corridors of his own hotel in San Fran
cisco. The hammer Of the pistol caugnt
in the folds Of the woman's Dress ana sn.
| lost her aim. Another woman VINO salo
she was his niece tried TO kill him, but
the courts found her tnssne, anu d thlro
brought suit for half million.
Senator Fair was divorced from his
wife not long ago, and the possession OF
Sill his millions cannot keep him from
thinking of her. He gave her more than
81 900. 600 when she left him and think
she took the children with her. Ex-Seha-
tor Tabor after quarter of century OF
married life with the woman who helped
him make his fortune, fell in love with
another mans wife, and he divorced the
| first Mrs. Tabor to marry the second, who
had in the meantime got divorce. His
| first wife, a respectable woman OF Den
yer, got fortune from his estate, and
I'll warrant you he feels worried
w0en he passes her on the street. Inc
second marriage of Tabor first took
place in the dirty Office of a justice of the
peace in ST. Louis. 1t was secret mar
rage, and the world did not know OF II
when he celebrated it again IN grand
style in Washington, showing his en-
broidered night shirts to the newspaper
correspondents and telling them they
cost scores OF dollars apiece. No HAN
who has had domestic troubles can be q
very happy one, and the skeleton Of the
divorce hangs with darker froWn over
the second marriage of CI9sus than it
does over the second marriage Of q pau
per. The C1Gsus ever fears that his
marriage was for his money; but the pau
per may feel that it was for love.
Outside of scandals, the family troubles
which nature entails upon ell, come to
the rich as well as TO the poor. The S2O,-
600 which Catherine Wolf paid her doctor
every year could not drive away death,
and Phil Armour's $4,000 doctor can do
no better. There was not father IN the
country who did not pity Senator Stan
ford when he lost his only son, and he
would be poor father indeed who would
trade his son for the 100000 which
Stanford owns. Amsss stones endow-
ment of Adelbert College in Cleveland
which he named after his son, showed
how much he felt his loss, and j. II.
Wade, another Cleveland millionaire al
most broke his heart in grief
when his son died few years
sgo. Wede ordained the Western
Union Telegraph Company. He believes
in spiritualism, and it is said that he
holds communication with his son
through the means of the telegraph.
Every Sunday morning between IL and
II O'Clock, as the story goes he mas a
seance. He takes a little ivory sounding
telegraph instrument and puts it upon a
table The medium puts his finger on
this and goes into q trance, whereupon
the ghost of the son speaks to the father
by telegraph through the MEDIUMS
fingers, answering the fathers questions
and conversing with him generally. Wade
is an expert telegrapher, but it is said
that the medium knows nothing about
the art, and if the story is true one, it
is one of the best proofs Of the genuine
ness of spirltualism.
Speaking Of the annoyances of rich
ren, the cranks follow them wherever
they go, and when Jay Gould was ex-
smined before the committee of Congress
at Washington he was besieged by g.
army of them, both women and men. It
is said that Gould keeps a man with him
constantly to protect him from such peo-
pie, and during the excitement OF the
railroad troubles of year or so ago
number of the rich railroad men had their
homes guarded by detectives. This was
so with the houses of the Astors, the
Vanderbilts and Jay Gould, and think
there was kind Of combination among
them by which one set Of detectives kept
guard upon all the houses. A curious
crank who bothered William 81. Wander
bilt not long ago was q Japanese who
thought one of the daughters of the mil
lionaire was in love with him. He took
rare Japanese curiOs to the Vanderbilt
mansion, and he was put out of the recep-
ton room of Mrs. William q. Vanderbilt
three times. He was finally stopped by q
detective and put under arrest. Scores
of cranks besiege the house OF Senator
Stanford in Washington, and not q few
hang around the residence of W. W. Cor
coran.
These cranks sometimes become dan
gerous and woman crank came near
killing the millionaire threadmaker,
Clark, not long ago. She had been q
patient in the county lunatic asylum and
she called at the door of the Clark man
sion in New Jersey, when the family We're
at supper. She first asked to see Clark
daughter, then his wife, and finally Mr..
Clark himself. As the latter opened
the door she dashed bottle of
nitric acid upon his face, burning
it terribly but fortunately not touching
his eyes. This girl had once been en-
ployed in Clsrk's thread mill but had
been discharged. She had been insane,
had attempted to commit suicide and had
tried to poison the members of her
family. Had It not been that Clark
had put on his hat before he went to the
door the nitricsacid would have entered
his eyes, and he would have been blind
for life.
Bad health sff1icts the millionaire as it
does the paupsr. Many modern Midas
has the dyspepsia, and he cannot eat the
dainty things which his French cook
brings him. Amos Lawrence of Boston
did not dare to tempt his stomach by eat
ing with his family, and to confine him.
self to oatmeal Cruel. Jay Gould lately
telegraphed to q London doctor for cure
for neuralgia, and the pill 8 which he re-
ceived in response did not help him bit.
All the millions in the world will not stop
the jumping toothache, and Mrs. A. T.
Stewart paid $50, 900 year to three ply
sicians during her latter days and died
at last. She WAS not happy under the |
process and all of Mayor Hewitt's wealth !
will not drive away insomnia. Insomnia |